I think you may be mixing your metaphors. A photon is both particle and wave, yes. But if the particle disappears, the wave also disappears because they are two aspects of the same entity.
As for the person, of course the person still exists even if he moves out of my sensory range. But, if...
yeah, but the question Scott asked was whether you could conceive of *any* eternal existence you’d like.
How do you know meaningful existence would be exhausted? In my scenario, I hypothesized that at the ultimate end of experience, you merge with a universal consciousness, just enjoying the...
I think evil is intentional cruelty; and as such, it must be a purely human creation.
Nature is ambivalent— it doesn’t do anything out of a sense of good or evil, right or wrong. Thus, while it may be cruel, it is not intentionally so, and therefore, not evil.
Neither do I believe evil is...
What do you mean by form?
If you mean “appearance”, then I’m not sure what the mystery is. It’s easier to appear than to do. If it weren’t hard to do good, then we wouldn’t be so constantly surprised and impressed when we see or hear about people doing good things.
You don’t remember every experience from childhood now but you still consider yourself you.
Personally, I like the idea of eternal reincarnation, with a period of reflection, memory, and relaxation in between each life. You could experience what it’s like to be an protozoan or a prince and...
Is this just lack of imagination? The question was “can you conceive of an eternal existence you want” but you chose only to answer about “eternal bliss without end”. Perhaps your preferred eternal existence requires change and, perhaps, suffering.
Heck yeah. Really don’t understand the people who are all like “no thanks”.
I don’t know what happens when we die but I’m pretty sure it’s nothing and that really sucks. I don’t want to cease to exist. So basically being given an option to continue existence is a no brainer to me.
For those...
I realized I got stuck on your language and didn’t go on to address your meaning.
I do think your non-acceptance, as you describe it, is a belief— the belief that you have insufficient reason to believe this man’s claim. But more to your point, does it constitue a belief that the gumballs are...
I don’t think we can say that a common way of speaking is incorrect. Language is determined by how it’s used; not about some perfect concept of logic or even communication.
You say it’s “just wrong linguistically”. According to whom? Wouldn’t the people who speak the language be the ultimate...
Wondering when someone would bring this up! :D
I think I have some wiggle room here. Wiki describes as follows: “In argumentation theory, an argumentum ad populum (Latin for "argument to the people") is a fallacious argument that concludes that a proposition must be true because many or most...
Nope. A courthouse is one of the things I’m thinking of. Two witnesses are better than one. Why? Because it makes their testimony more believable.
Plausible doesn’t mean true.
Already posted the definition. To recap: “the quality of seeming reasonable or probable”.
Please note “seeming”.
“Believable” is a synonym for “plausible”— check a thesaurus. Believable closely conveys the sense in which I’m using the word “plausible”.
The very original post that started this train of thought used “plausibility”, not evidence, claiming that both fairies and gods were equally plausible.
I make a distinction between the two.
I think “the number of believers makes something more plausible” is a slam dunk, irrefutable...